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  • LLMs don’t do formal reasoning – and that is a HUGE problem

    Take a moment and bang this concept into your heads… “we found no evidence of formal reasoning in language models …. Their behavior is better explained by sophisticated pattern matching—so fragile, in fact, that changing names can alter results by ~10%!” https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-dont-do-formal-reasoning-and STOP WITH THE WISHFUL THINKING.

  • An insightful example of how our use of language traps us…

    Charlie Stross tackles the idea of how our mental models limit our thinking. Anyway, a point I’ve already chewed over on this blog is that a spaceship is not like a sea-going vessel, can’t be operated like a sea-going vessel, and the word “ship” in its name feeds into various cognitive biases that may be actively…

  • There is no question, this is an amazing feat of engineering…

    Almost seven minutes following liftoff, the Super Heavy booster returned to its launchpad, where the launch tower caught it using arms that SpaceX has nicknamed the “chopsticks.” https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/13/24269029/spacex-starship-launch-super-heavy-chopstick-launch-tower-return-fifth-flight-test

  • Meat(al) Puppets

    During the event, Musk presented the Optimus robot as little more than your personal slave. “Whatever you can think of, it will do,” he told his adoring followers as they shouted how much they loved the fascist billionaire. Rows of Tesla employees flanked a line of Optimus robots ready to engage with the gullible cult members,…

  • Business leaders are done with David Seymours racist bullshit

    The reason for Seymour’s rating came through loud and clear in some savage commentary. “This divisive approach needs to end,” said one respondent, who believed he was “losing support from many of those who may have voted for him in his electorate”. A legal firm leader said “I worry they are not focusing on the biggest issues…

  • Mark Zuckerberg’s rebrand is a master class in distraction

    Mark Zuckerberg has changed, but not in the way the narratives disseminated by his PR team suggest. He is not done with politics; he’s simply adopting a more right-wing worldview that’s more aligned with his interests and that he hopes will lessen the scrutiny applied to his company. But more than anything, he’s decided he…

  • Reading about neuro-symbolic AI has completed my fatalistic outlook regarding hard limitations of machines

    Machines are epistemically landlocked. There is no such thing as “an external world” to them. Machines push around loads INSIDE them. “But-but-but we’re also machines!” some dream-addled kid may scream with teary eyes. Uh, no. Learn what a machine is. https://davidhsing.substack.com/p/reading-about-neuro-symbolic-ai-has

  • Why Tech Won’t Save Us

  • Innovations in Hypocrisy

    https://jensorensen.com/2024/10/03/ai-data-centers-carbon-climate-tech-companies-cartoon/

  • Why Neural Networks is a Bad Technology

    Neural networks never deal with knowledge in any kind of legitimate fashion. It will always have epistemic issues because that’s their underlying nature. Additionally, it’s a house of cards that’s brittle and collapses if anything is out-of-range of the model’s data. The actual “range” being the entire real world and the entirety of human knowledge. https://davidhsing.substack.com/p/why-neural-networks-is-a-bad-technology